Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-21

noon lUt uOOI Woo AOeAe
was burst open, and Aunt Wilnie Vas
found lying on the floor burned TO deaIh.
Her clothing was entirely burned of. Inc
bed clothing and bed were also iound
burned. 1t is supposed that the old wo-
man fell asleep while smoking her pipe,
the fire from which caught in her clothing
and in her bed, resulting in her death.
A number of Charleston society leaders
met a few nights ago and decided on giving
n grand complimentary ball to the Legisia-
ture now in session. This evening was
selected a. the time, and the State Armory
the Mace for the occasion. G. &. Rand Is
chairman aud Counsellor Dave PEBBLES
secretary. Before adjournipg the Char ap,,
pointed Messrs. Ben Brown, +. w. anu
Fred Stauuton as an Executive Committee.
The Reception Committee is composed OF
Gov. E. W. Wilson, Hon. w. A. Quarter,
Hon. H. C. McWhoIter, d. {. Gailaher'
Geo. Davis, W. E. Chiffon, Hon. ID. 3.
Walker, Col. E. L. Buttrick, j. T. Dsna,
M. B. Reber, Frank Woodman, Gen. 4. l.;
Wood, J. NJ. Payne, Hon. K. 5 Carr ana
w. A. McCorkle.
When the police of Parkersburg arrested
VIM. Clinton several weeks ago for THEFT,
etc, they builded better than they knew.
II now turns out that he Is a p~enltentlary
bird and an all around crook. Friday
morning James Y. Horror, ex-guard at the
Moundsyille ~penitentiary, recognized MIN
as a former inmate of that institution
where he went under the name OF Alex
ander Leaper. He was also in the pen at
Columbus, Ohio, for a term under the
nam of William Leaper. Chief Beckwlth
has information from Steubenville that
Clinton is a crook of the deepest dye. lie
is still in Jail and will be tried on March
first.
Last Thursday morning George w.
Lake. a farmer who lived near Grafton,
got up and built a large fire on the CRATE
with kindling wood aud shavlngs. Then
he went to bed again. In about hall an
hour a neighbor came running in to tell
him that the whole top of his house was
on fire. On the impulse of the moment
he decided to get up again, and had the
impulse seized him a few moments later,
neither he nor his family would have eS-
capped from the building, As it was, they
barely saved their lives, and all their
household effects, including most OF their
clothing, were reduced TO ashes.
1t is not generally known that the first
Garnet factory ever established south of the
Potomac was started in Martinsburg about
the veal 1925, by 4 German ame I. u.
Conradt, assisted by an EngliShman named
James Mitchell. The factory was located
on Tuscarora creek, where the Fitz foundry
now stands, and was a long, one-story, log
building. Atwood carpets of beautiful
patterns were made there, but the enterprise
came to an untimely end in consequence
of James Mitchell, the expert workman,
becoming insane.
On Tuesday Mr.. John Bragg, living
near Elk Knob, in Summers county, left
home TO cut staye lumber. Returning 1T
night he found his wife absent. lie le-
paired to the house of her mother, close
by. expecting to lind her, but she was not
there. He continued to enquire OF the
neighboring families, but no trace OF his
lost wife could anywhere be found. MIR.
Bragg suspects that his wife has been muir
dered, and on Wednesday last swOrc out
warrants for parties suspected of the horri-
BILE crime.
The mysterious disappearance of MIR.
Matt. Brooks, of Warrington, has not
been explained ~ yet. 1t is not believed
that he has been foully dealt with, but his
whereabouts are unknown, ut least TO the
public. The fact hat he WAS To have
been married within u few days from the
date of his disappearance tends to mystify
and complicate the matter. IL he adopted
this plan Of evading the ~nuptials, his con-
duct is i~neNcusable.
Last Monday evening an injunction was
was served on the City of Huntington and
each member OF the Council, inhlbiting
them from altering, amending or repeating
ordinance No. 20. 1t was issued by Judge
Guthrie, ut Point Pleasant, upon the
PRAYER of the c. x o. Railway Company.
The Council took the ground that there
were no causes for the issuance of All in
junction, and being a legislative body,
disregarded it, and repealed the ordinance.